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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Smallest kernel ?
To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 15:05:55 -0700 (MST)
Cc: zgabor@CoDe.hu, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199604291630.SAA05654@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Apr 29, 96 06:30:14 pm
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> > > > I was wondering, is there some option (apart from gzip) which can
> > > > be turned on to produce a smaller kernel ? Especially for NFS,
> > > > perhaps the 100KB are for both client & server, UDP and TCP code ?
> > > 
> > > Strip the symbols.
> > 
> > Once, I read that striping the kernel is not a good solution,
> > because some programs (who, ps, etc) cannot work after it.
> > Isn't it true for FreeBSD?
> 
> Yes. BTW, stripping the kernel only saves disk space (precious on a
> floppy, but not that precious on the NFS server), the symbols do not
> occupy RAM.

Gzip only saves disk, not RAM.  I thought disk was the goal, not RAM.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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